David Charlton

Gebundenes Buch

Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France

Beschreibung

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, exploring topics including performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging.

Autor

David Charlton is Emeritus Professor of Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published on topics in opera between Bizet and Purcell. He is author of Grétry and the Growth of Opera-Comique (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and Opera in the Age of Rousseau (Cambridge University Press, 2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and also of The Music of Simon Holt (The Boydell Press, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515846
• ISBN-10: 1316515842
• Artikelnr.: 62548906